List of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty

Nobel laureate

• Muhammad Younus, Bangladesh's only Nobel prize winner, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

  Presidents">President of Bangladesh">Presidents

• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st and 4th President and Father of the Nation of Bangladesh
• Syed Nazrul Islam, former acting President of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971
• Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh
• Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh
• A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th President of Bangladesh
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh
• Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh
• Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
• A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
• Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, former acting President of Bangladesh
• Iajuddin Ahmed, 14th President of Bangladesh
• Zillur Rahman, 15th President of Bangladesh
• Abdul Hamid, 16th and incumbent President of Bangladesh

  Vice Presidents">Vice President of Bangladesh">Vice Presidents

• Mirza Nurul Huda, 3rd Vice President of Bangladesh

  [Prime minister]s

• Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Mashiur Rahman, former senior minister, with the rank and status of a prime minister
• Ataur Rahman Khan, 5th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 6th Vice President of Bangladesh
• Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Sheikh Hasina, 10th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bangladesh in her second term
• Lotay Tshering, 8th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bhutan

  Deputy Prime Ministers

• Jamal Uddin Ahmad, Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 1977–1982

  Chief Advisers">Caretaker government of Bangladesh#Chief Advisers since 1991">Chief Advisers (Head of the Government)

• Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser from 1990 to 1991
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser in 1996
• Latifur Rahman, 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser in 2001
• Iajuddin Ahmed, 14th President of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser from 2006 to 2007
• Fakhruddin Ahmed, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, Chief Adviser from 2007 to 2009

  Judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

Chief Justices of Bangladesh

• Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 5th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Shahabuddin Ahmed, 6th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Justice Mustafa Kamal, 9th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Latifur Rahman, 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain, 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Md. Tafazzul Islam, 17th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Md. Muzammel Hossain, 20th Chief Justice of Bangladesh

  Judges of High Court Division

• Farah Mahbub, judge
• Amir Hossain, judge

  Politics and public service

• Abul Fateh, first foreign secretary of Bangladesh
• Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, current Finance Minister of Bangladesh
• Anisul Huq, current Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh
• Asaduzzaman Noor, current Minister of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh
• Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former foreign minister of Bangladesh and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
• Jahanara Imam, writer and political activist, popularly known as "Shaheed Janani"
• Leela Roy, radical leftist Indian politician and reformer; close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose; fought with university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earn an M.A. degree
• Mainul Hosein, former law minister of Bangladesh
• Matia Chowdhury, former left-wing student leader and NAP politician and current BAL Presidum member and Minister of Agriculture
• Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary-General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, former Minister of Home Affairs of Bangladesh
• Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, former minister; career journalist; former press secretary to the President of Bangladesh
• Nurul Islam Nahid, current Minister of Education of Bangladesh
• Obaidul Quader, current Minister of Communications of Bangladesh
• Rashed Khan Menon, current Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Bangladesh
• Saifur Rahman, former finance minister of Bangladesh
• Shah A M S Kibria, diplomat, former finance minister of Bangladesh, former executive secretary of ESCAP
• Sheikh Razzak Ali, founding member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Deputy Speaker and Speaker of Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad
• Tabarak Husain, former foreign secretary of Bangladesh
• Tandi Dorji, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan
• Tofail Ahmed, former student leader and current BAL Presidum member and Minister of Commerce
• Sheikh Shahidul Islam, former Minister of Education, Public Works, former President Bangladesh Chattra League, current Secretary-General of Jatiya Party.

  Science and engineering

Physics

• A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist, author of many physics books
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury, physicist, ex-Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka, member, Nobel Committee for Physics
• Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, co-discoverer of the Raman Effect in physics
• Khandker Abdul Muttalib,
• Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani, physicist
• M Innas Ali, physicist, founder of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
• M. A. Wazed Miah, physicist
• M. Shamsher Ali, nuclear scientist and educator
• Miftahur Rahman, physicist
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth IEEE Fellow
• Mohammad Sajjad Alam, particle physicist
• Golam Dastegir Al-Quaderi, BPS, renowned teacher and all-rounder physicist.
• Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS, best known for his work on quantum statistics in the early 1920s.
• Sultana N. Nahar, physicist and astronomer
• Imdadul Haque Khan

  Chemistry

• Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain
• Abed Chaudhury, geneticist
• Abul Hussam, inventor of the SONO filter for arsenic removal
• Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, chemist, educationalist, ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka
• Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya - natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

  Other

• Abul Kalam Azad Chowdhury, Chairman of University Commission of Bangladesh, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Dhaka.
• Bhagawan Koirala, cardiothoracic surgeon
• Fazlur Rahman Khan, pioneering structural engineer and architect; contributed to modern skyscraper design technology. works include Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
• M. Anwar Hossain, biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, 2012-
• Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
• S.M. Ullah, soil scientist and environmentalist who researched arsenic contamination with the Seibersdorf Research Center, Austria.
• Shah M. Faruque, director of the Centre for Food and Water Borne Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
• Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan, Mathematician, co-discoverer of Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number
• Zeba Islam Seraj, a Bangladeshi Scientist known for her research in developing salt-tolerant rice varieties suitable for growth in the coastal areas of Bangladesh

  Education, philosophy and academia

• Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
• Abdul Haque Faridi, Educator, lecturer and writer
• Abdur Razzaq, academic and educator
• Anisuzzaman, academic, professor
• Azfar Hussain, academic, writer, and activist
• Bazlul Chowdhury, Vice-Chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh
• Farhad Mazhar, writer, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist
• Govinda Chandra Dev, professor of philosophy at University of Dhaka
• Gowher Rizvi, historian, academic
• Imran Rahman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
• M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist, and museum curator
• M Osman Ghani, scientist, educationist, and academic, 11th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
• Mohammad Noman, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University
• Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer, philologist, and linguist
• Muntassir Mamoon, historian, author, translator and professor
• Mohammad Abul Kashem, author, politician, educator, pioneer of the Language Movement
• Niaz Zaman, Bangladeshi academic, writer
• R.C. Majumdar, historian and vice-chancellor of Dacca University
• Sadeka Halim, first woman in Bangladesh to serve as Chief Information Commissioner
• Salimullah Khan, author, essayist, thinker, public intellectual
• Sardar Fazlul Karim, academic, philosopher, and essayist
• Sayed Moazzem Hossain, Academic, Islamic scholar, 6th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
• Syed Abul Kalam Azad, former treasurer of University of Dhaka
• Wahiduddin Ahmed, thirdthe 3rd vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Jasim Uddin Ahmad, 12 th Vice Chancellor, Jahangirnagar University, Recipient of Ekushey Padak, 2006

  Arts, culture and literature

• Abdul Kadir, poet, awarded Ekushey Padak and Independence Day Award
• Abdul Mannan Syed, poet, author and researcher
• Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Bangladeshi writer, television presenter, organizer and activist
• Abdullah Al Mamun, Bangladeshi playwright, actor and filmmaker
• Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, a major songwriter of contemporary Bengali, poet, essayist, critic and presenter
• Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet and civil servant
• Abul Fazal, Bangladeshi writer and educationist
• Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator and intellectual
• Ahsan Habib, Bangladeshi cartoonist, writer and editor of Unmad, a satire magazine
• Akhteruzzaman Elias, Bengladeshi novelist and short-story writer
• Alamgir Kabir, filmmaker; three of his feature films are featured in the British Film Institute's list of "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films"
• Aly Zaker, actor, director, businessman, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and occasional writer and photographer
• Anwar Pasha, author of 'Rifle, Roti, Awrat, the first novel set on the Bangladesh War of Independence, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971
• Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator and journalist
• Bipasha Hayat, Bangladeshi actress
• Buddhadeb Bosu, major Bengali writer of the mid-twentieth century, belonging to the Kollol age
• Chanchal Chowdhury, Bangladeshi actor
• Debabrata Basu, mathematical statistician
• Dino Shafeek, Bengali actor based in the United Kingdom
• Fakrul Alam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, and translator
• Fauzia Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
• Ferdausi Rahman, eminent playback, ghazal and folk singer
• Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
• Ferdousi Mazumder, Bangladeshi actress
• Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi contemporary visual artist, painter, and creator
• Ghulam Murshid, author, researcher and journalist
• Golam Mustafa, Bangladeshi actor
• Hasnat Abdul Hye, Bangladesi writer and novelist
• Helal Hafiz, Bangladeshi poet
• Hosne Ara Shahed, Bengali writer and educationist
• Humayun Ahmed, Bengali novelist, short-story writer and filmmaker
• Humayun Azad, Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and professor
• Ilias Kanchan, Bangladeshi filmstar, actor and road-safety activist
• Kabir Chowdhury, academic, essayist, materialist, translator
• Kaiser Hamidul Haq, Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic
• Khan Ataur Rahman, Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer
• Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, poet, essayist, translator and editor from Bangladesh
• Kiran Chandra Roy, Bangladeshi baul and folk musician and songwriter.
• Maksudul Ahsan, artist
• Mobarak Hossain Khan, music researcher, surbahar player
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, popular sci-fi writer
• Munier Choudhury, playwright
• Murtaza Bashir, Bangladeshi painter
• Nilufar Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
• Natyaguru Nurul Momen, playwright, director, belles letters writer, satirist, personal essayist, lawyer
• Qazi Anwar Hussain, author, publisher and translator
• Qazi Motahar Hossain, Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician and journalist
• Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist
• Ramendu Majumdar, Bangladeshi actor, stage director and theater producer and President of the International Theatre Institute
• Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, poet
• Sabina Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
• Sara Zaker, theater and television actor, entrepreneur and social activist
• Sayeem Rana, Poet, Researcher, Musicologist, Music Director, National film Award 2014
• Serajul Islam Choudhury, literary critic, public intellectual, social analyst, historian, editor, and professor emeritus
• Shafiq Tuhin, Bangladeshi lyricist, music director and singer
• Shahidul Zahir, Bengladeshi novelist and short-story writer
• Shahidullah Kaiser, major Bengali novelist and Dhaka University professor, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971
• Shahriar Kabir, Bangladeshi novelist, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist
• Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
• Shishir Bhattacharjee, artist
• Shuvro Dev, Bangladeshi musician
• Suborna Mustafa, Bangladeshi television and film actress
• Syed Abul Maksud, Bangladeshi author, columnist, research scholar, and essayist
• Syed Ali Ahsan, poet and author
• Syed Manzoorul Islam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, novelist, translator, columnist, and critic
• Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, composer, lyricist, actor, anchor and teacher
• Tanvir Mokammel, Bengali filmmaker, and author
• Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist
• Taslima Akhter, activist and photographer
• Taslima Nasrin, atheist writer
• Waheedul Haq, journalist, writer, musicologist and founder of Chhayanaut
• Zahir Raihan, Pioneer Bangladeshi filmmaker and noted novelist and short-story writer.
• Zobeda Khanum, writer

  Journalism and media

• Altaf Husain, founding editor of Dawn Newspaper
• Haroon Habib, Chief Editor and Managing Director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
• Kaberi Gayen, journalist and columnist for The Daily Star
• Mahbub Anam, former editor of the Bangladesh Times
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, establishing newspaper editor of the Khaleej Times
• Mahfuz Anam, editor of The Daily Star
• Matiur Rahman, editor of Daily Prothom Alo
• Mishuk Munier, former CEO and Chief Editor of satellite TV channel ATN News
• Nurul Kabir, editor of The New Age
• Shykh Seraj, news director at Channel i

  Games and sports

• Athar Ali Khan, former international cricketer and cricket commentator
• Jahurul Islam, international cricketer
• Mosharraf Hossain, international cricketer
• Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to summit Mount Everest
• Shahriar Nafees, international cricketer
• Ziaur Rahman, chess player from Bangladesh and the second Grandmaster of the country

  Chiefs of Forces

• Lieutenant General H M Ershad, 5th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
• Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 13th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
• General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, 17th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh

  Business

• Abul Khair Litu, Chairman of the Bengal Foundation
• Ayman Sadiq, educator, entrepreneur and founder of 10 Minute School
• Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman Managing Director of Bandhan Bank, India
• Mohammad Shahjahan, Acting Managing Director of Grameen Bank
• Samson H. Chowdhury, entrepreneur and former chairman of Astras Ltd. and Square
• Syed Manzur Elahi, Chairman of Apex Group
• Abul Barkat, economist, former Chairman of state-owned Janata Bank and former Chairperson of Department of Economics, Dhaka University

  Others

• Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, 1980 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership
• Tahrunessa Abdullah, 1978 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership